Tuesday, August 31, 2021

New Computerized Mount for Telescopes

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On an astronomy forum I was chatting with another old guy about star-hopping, locating objects such as nebulas by knowing the constellations...
Sunday, August 15, 2021

The Scientific Method

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Emergency management, physical security, and information security are three disciplines in which the process of continuous improvement is a ...
Friday, August 13, 2021

Some Sociology of Academic Astronomy

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You need a sense of humor and of all the puns, one-liners, walking into a bar, and knock-knock jokes that could be invented, the words of th...
Sunday, August 1, 2021

A good night observing

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After an unusually long four months of clouds and rain, the skies have been clearing over the past week. On the 29 th , I got my first view ...
Thursday, July 29, 2021

JUPITER AT 1100x

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As a child, though I owned telescopes, most of my instrument viewing was with microscopes. I learned well that more power does not make a be...
Saturday, July 24, 2021

Remote Work Before Covid

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Going through some boxes from the garage, I found this. You can tell from the PDA (personal digital assistant) in his hand, from the fax mac...
Tuesday, July 20, 2021

60 Years Ago: Gus Grisson and Liberty Bell 7

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We were on vacation in Daytona Beach, but had to come home on the 20th. So, we did not see any of the launch, except, of course, on televisi...
Wednesday, July 14, 2021

Observing With NASA: An Open Platform for Citizen Science

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Messier 51:  The Whirlpool taken 28 June 2021 Processed 9 July 2021 I have no problem with failure. I do not like failing, but I am not afra...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Western Shoot-out: The Virginian versus Bonanza

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We watch DVDs and do not subscribe to cable. We enjoyed some television drama from the 21 st  century such as  Num3ers ,  Firefly ,  Bones  ...
Sunday, July 11, 2021

Virgin Galactic VX01 VX03

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 A picture is worth a thousand words. NASA-TV cut between its own feed and the press feed from Unity 22. These are all sequential as present...
Wednesday, June 30, 2021

Morality and the Philosophy of Science

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Science is consistent and integrated because reality is real. Contradictions do not exist. When we meet an empirical fact for which no expla...